Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1887-09-17

CAPTURE OF GOV. BURKE
AT
LAND SHOT AND KILLED
NEAR TIE BRIDGE-NOT
TWO BUTTHIR.
TEEN PRISONERS CAPTUR-
ED AND MARCHED TO Will
MINGTON AND THENCE To
CHARLESTON.
NR. EDITOR | write 10 remind
you that tbs the 18Th day Oh Sep
tember is memorable IN The chroul-
c!es Of Hii.sboSs On this day, ISL.
about o'c!ockIn the morning, David
Tanning, the noted Tory, entered
the town (as lie falsely says with an
army OF l,4tD men, captured the
Governor and 200 prisoners, killing
lo rebels. l, was a busy and terri
BILE day, snch as had never been Wit
messed before. Men mounted, tur.
ried to aud fro; women shrteked
and children cried. Amid the con-
fusion, Capt, Clendeunen with tLir-
ty-six mounted men rode into the
town expecting 10 capture Fanting,
whose forces be supposed was not
more than q o Of men. After a
bold charge, which disclosed the
force OF the enemy be and the
,hirty-six made good their retreat 70
the west OF the town leaving James
Turner (the father Of Judge Turner
of Arksnsas, and David Turner, OF
Plttsboro,) In the hands of the Ell.
envy. The jail was forced open and
political and al! other prisoners re
leased. The old glebe church which
stood where the Presbyterian church
now stands, was hospital and con.
tanned about go patien,s-all Wing,
who received rough handling and
many curses troLn the ,riumphan,
enemy. Thomas F~reeland, the
great-great- grand father Of Thoma:
and William FTeeIand o. IIillsborc
township, was the only man killed
He was a sentinel On post in the
south end OF the town, about hal.
way between the bridge and The
court house. He was buried in the
old Palmer garden near where be
fell.
The stay Of the enemy was briet
for they left in time to march b,
dark TO Gates house, on the spo'
where the widow OF the late Wm
j. Bingham lived and died, some l:
miles west of HiIlsboro.. Here All
exander Russell, a prisoner, mad,
his escape, having even twelve com
panions in the hands oftbe foe.
On the second days march, eigh'
miles from their first encampmen'
and OF this side of Cane creek, Gen
Butler and Col. Bob Mebane en-
countered and fred upon flaming
and his r~etreating army. AT th'
first onset the advantage was Will
Butler and the Wings. The Torie
~recoiled and were thrown into con
fusion. flaming rallied his men
leading them by a right-dank move
ment and reached without fighting
the top Of the hill upon which th
Wings stood awaiting the coming G
the Tory army.
1t was an heroic battle, we'll sus
tanned by both armies, until Geuers
Butler himself first gave way an
ordered a retreat. This order va
not Immediately obeyed by Meban
and bis men. They fought un,
one hundred and twenty lay dea
or wounded upon the ground.
!. flaming continued his march wit
1.-THE Governor and Il prisoners I
Wilmington. Our historians clair
q drawn battle, but old jim Turue
and the prisoners never saw it tt;
way. They counted ,hemsels,
whipped and Butler the cause of
1t was in September ten yea.
before this, that six. patriots-calie
Regulators-Were hung upon a TIRE
which may be seen from the don
OF the court house.
1t was in September when o
Daniel Boone, gun in hand, marche
as one of a body-guard for judo
Henderson to Granville county,
protect him from the violence OF
euraged people because be aud
two Associate Justices had ia
It ed to punish corrupt and convict
court ofhciais as they deserve
E. Daniel Boone was sent on busine
4. TO Kentucky by Nathaniel Rochs
ter, who vas Gen. MASKS success
as Clerk of Orange County Cou
If your readers relished such foe
| could give them more Of it.
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